Inception Leads Satellite Award Nominations; Surprise Omissions

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Sophia Savage
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Thompson on HollywoodDecember 2, 2010 at 1:02AM

IndieWIRE's Peter Knegt looks at the Wacky Satellite Award nominations, led by Inception with eleven (including Best Picture, Director, Actor [DiCaprio] and Supporting Actress [Marion Cotillard]). Knegt notes that these often inexplicable and "generally disregarded" as Oscar precursor awards do include many "worthy nominees" this year. However, a slew of surprising omissions include Black Swan, Rabbit Hole and The Fighter from the Best Picture category.

IndieWIRE's Peter Knegt looks at the Wacky Satellite Award nominations, led by Inception with eleven (including Best Picture, Director, Actor [DiCaprio] and Supporting Actress [Marion Cotillard]). Knegt notes that these often inexplicable and "generally disregarded" as Oscar precursor awards do include many "worthy nominees" this year. However, a slew of surprising omissions include Black Swan, Rabbit Hole and The Fighter from the Best Picture category.

The complete list of nominees is below; winners will be announced on December 19.

Original Score“127 Hours”“Black Swan”“The Eclipse”“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1“Inception”“Salt”“The Social Network”“Unstoppable”

Original Song“If I Rise” from “127 Hours”“Alice” from “Alice in Wonderland”“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from “Burlesque”“Country Strong” from “Country Strong”“What Part of Forever” from “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”“Eclipse (All Yours)” from “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”

Motion Picture (Animated or Mixed Media)“Alice in Wonderland”“Despicable Me”“How to Train Your Dragon”“The Illusionist”“Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole”“Toy Story 3

Motion Picture (Documentary)“Behind the Burly Q”“Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer”“Countdown to Zero”“A Film Unfinished”“Inside Job”“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work”“Restrepo”“Sequestro”“The Tillman Story”“Waiting for Superman”

Thompson on Hollywood

Born and raised in Manhattan, Anne Thompson grew up going to the Thalia and The New Yorker and wound up at grad Cinema Studies at NYU. She worked at United Artists and Film Comment before heading west as that magazine's west coast editor. She wrote for the LA Weekly, Sight and Sound, Empire, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly before serving as West Coast Editor of Premiere. She wrote for The Washington Post, The London Observer, Wired, More, and Vanity Fair, and did staff stints at The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. She eventually took her blog Thompson on Hollywood to Indiewire. She taught film criticism at USC Critical Studies, and continues to host the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension.